Local Meanings, Global Schooling

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Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures? Do educational reforms take school systems on diverging or parallel paths? These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology's world culture theory (neo-institutionalism). They demonstrate how national ministries of education and local schools re-invent every reform. Yet the cases also show that teachers and local reformers operate 'within and against' global models. Anthropologists need to recognize the global presence in local schooling as well as local transformation of global models. This is a collection that scholars in the field of the anthropology of education will not want to be without.Actual Lesson Structure As mentioned, the official curriculum laid out a model
lesson plan. The left side of Table 3.2 illustrates the sequence of activities
suggested for secondgrade lessons, which were to take place ... as moving from
the sentence (step 1 in Table 3.2) to the word (step 2), and from the word to the
sound or letter (step 3). ... asking her 72 second-grade students to comment on
the picture of the boy Moussa from the book (step 1) and writing the key sentence
on the board.

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Local Meanings, Global Schooling

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Kathryn Anderson-Levitt

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Palgrave Macmillan - 2003-05-02

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